1. Teacher: Anastasia G. Khodakova

2.  Candidate of philological sciences  2004- took Public Speaking course in the USA  since 2004 has conducted cultural presentations, trainings, workshops in Russian and English  2006 – took part in a day-long training in Moscow «Basics of Public Speaking»

3. Goal – to improve skills of preparing a speech and speaking in public. Aims:  learn speech types (informative, demonstrative, persuasive) and prepare several speeches  learn how to use visuals wisely, including Power Point  develop public speaking skills by presenting your speeches to the group

4.  How to build confidence. Introduction Speech  How to make contact with audience. Million Dollar Speech  Speech structure. Main difficulties. Personal message speech  Creating strong Power Point presentations to fit the type of speech  Informative Speech  Persuasive Speech  Demonstrative Speech  Group Speech

5.  making your own speeches and speaking in front of the group  making group speech  trainings  workshops  interactive lectures and seminars  peer assessment of your groupmates